Posted on 01/03/2010 11:49:05 AM PST by FromLori
At a stroke the cold reality of China's attitude to the outside world was laid bare for all to see. Rather than being a partner that can be trusted to work with the West on issues of mutual concern, the Chinese have demonstrated that their default position is that Beijing's only real priority it to look after its own interests, whether it is enforcing its zero tolerance policy on drug abuse or refusing to cooperate with global efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
China's self-centred approach to international affairs should come as no surprise to the British government. American President Barack Obama was similarly rebuffed during his state visit to Beijing last November. Mr Obama arrived in China hoping to get Chinese cooperation on a range of issues, such as North Korea, financial stability and human rights. But despite being given a warm reception in public by Chinese officials, including a private guided tour of the Great Wall, the American president left Beijing without gaining any concessions from China on any major issue.
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Since around 1992, the West should have been placed on suicide watch. And it’s gotten exponentially worse since then.
About all we can do now is watch this play out.
When the proverbial stuff hits the fan, just remember folks. Some of us tried to sound the warning bells about China.
Britain making new trade deals with China, makes it absolutely clear out clueless Western leaders are. It’s a sad thing to watch, the circling of the drain.
SAT
Who were the other major traitors?
When I was young the saying was I would rather be dead then red we all knew the commies couldn’t be trusted I taught my children the commies couldn’t be trusted I think our government deciding to do business with them because globalists wanted the cheap labor was suicide!
When the proverbial stuff hits the fan, just remember folks. Some of us tried to sound the warning bells about China
Yes...a number of us tried to warn everyone about Communist China....wonder what those who whine “isolationism” and “protectionism” are thinking now
Supporting Free Trade with Communist China is just supporting Communism
Unanswered question: Will the US’s policies that have moved large amounts of US manufacturing production to China, and transferred untold amounts of technology, and created massive trade deficits, will those policies prove to be the most stupid, self-destructive in all of human history?
“...the Chinese have demonstrated that their default position is that Beijing’s only real priority it to look after its own interests...”
As any country with even a shred of survival instinct and not afflicted with political correctness should be doing 24/7.
Nations don’t have friends, they have interests — Talleyrand
INHO they already have
Just a big hero to a lot of clueless "conservatives" on this forum, for instance
I suppose you could make that case. Others certainly do, so you’re not alone or in particularly bad company either. I still see it differently.
During the height of the cold war, it was desired to cozy up with one Communist nation in opposition to the other. It gave Russia something to think about, because these two nations (China/Russia) were experiencing skirmishes on China’s northern border. The were hardly kissing cousins in that time frame.
Had the association been kept simply, merely a dialogue and softening of China’s anti-Western stance, perhaps it could have been a positive thing.
What transpired around 1992 was IMO bordering treason. It give aid and comfort to a Communist nation whose politicians were still making statements that they wanted to bury the West.
When you see the subterfuge associated with the Clinton White House, the thefts of state secrets, the gifting of others, the gifting of our technology that gave China a three or more decade jump, there’s little doubt both Bush the Elder and Clinton were psycho-babble idiots when it came to China.
Is that a good thing? Hell no!
Is that Nixon’s fault? No.
Is it reasoned to think a dialogue with China could have helped us in the cold war? Yes.
I see this as a ploy (not by you of course), to lay yet another bad thing off on a guy already suspected and blamed for bad things. It absolves those who truly did game the system.
Bush and Clinton have an awful lot to answer for when it comes to China. One day, I hope they’ll be seen for the contributors who brought us terrible grief.
Their successors will also share in that judgment.
Bingo. And since when is rejecting the AGW scam something bad.
Same here FromLori. I can identify with and agree on all counts there. Absolutely right IMO.
Akmal Shaikh-sure sounds British to me....
If environmentalists were serious about energy independence, they wouldn’t be allowing the solar cell factories in California to outsource wafer fab to China.
Have you seen some of the names in zero administration soon it will sound American :)
It is possible that it prevented a war or wars, since it is not to their benefit to attack their major trading partner, and better to their interests they sit back and watch us financially mismanage ourselves into economic oblivion.
The traitors who benefited from our selling out our industrial base and pushing the "service economy" should get the blame they deserve. It has cost our workers, jobs and our investors, capital. We are approaching a point that we will be unable to change course, even if we could agree on a direction to take. Obama is an accelerator to this dismal condition and is totally clueless, corrupt and incompetent.
How is China wrong in watching out of it’s OWN NATIONAL SELF INTERESTS? Isn’t that what responsible nations are supposed to be doing????
Exactly how different is that from what the British position has been for centuries?
” whether it is enforcing its zero tolerance policy on drug abuse or refusing to cooperate with global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. “
And that is bad how?
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